Verdict: I do not say this lightly; ‘Entreat’ is a wreck! “Utter and
complete rubbish” will not be enough to describe this shoddy attempt at movie
making. This movie is absolute crap. I mean headache inducing crappy kind of
crap. ‘Entreat’ manages to tell a basic story, in the most complicated and most
ridiculous way possible. Seeing this, I wasn’t just furious; I was sorely irritated.
This movie has got no single redeeming factor. There’s not a
single thing I can point to, that could save this from scoring zero. And that
is being overly generous! In actual fact ‘Entreat’ deserves a minus. It’s just
that terrible. The script was un-inspiring-ly shabby. The dialogue was so weak; and
the acting?
Goodness gracious! The acting was horrible! Only Michael Asuelime Jnr
who played ‘Moses’ showed even the slightest promise, everyone else put
up plastic performances; soulless and awful. And the production was just
as
horrible. Superimposing the audio was a bad idea, and it gets worse,
especially because it’s
badly done. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, the general audio quality
was
terrible; it was all over the place. And as if, even that, wasn’t bad
enough, you
will be made to suffer through some of the crappiest foreign accent
faking, I have seen in Nollywood in like forever.
You see, I love Nollywood, but I know Nollywood has differing
levels. Floating atop the froth is the cinema level Nollywood, reserved
for
Nollywood’s beauty of beauties. Then somewhere at the bottom of the
barrel, lies the ubiquitous N100 per VCD level Nollywood, reserved for
knucklehead flicks that
insist on giving Nollywood a bad name.
Now you can’t blame the guys at the
bottom, they’ve got mass market; and that’s fair. However, when you hit the
cinema excitedly, looking forward to a beauty, and you get served a knucklehead
N100 per VCD level flick, at cinema cost, you get angry. And after seeing ‘Entreat’ I am angry.
Very angry!
So, see this only if you want an excursion into everything a movie
shouldn’t be. But, if I were you, I would avoid this ghastly
accident.
Not recommended!
If you want, you can see the trailer (HERE) and get more details:
Synopsis: Secrets
are a part of us. There are things we wish we could tell, yet we cannot
reveal. So we live with secrets and even keep from the ones we claim to
love. (Written by Filmhouse)
Starring: Dakore Egbuson-Akande, Funlola Aofiyebi-Raimi, Osas Ajibade, Eku Edewor, Alexx Ekubo, Wole Ojo, Wale Ojo, Bryan Okwara, Zainab Balogun, Kunle Coker, Stephanie Coker and Sadiq Daba
Review By: Cinema Pointer